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Post by Valodya Bassarov on May 11, 2005 20:30:24 GMT -5
They sit down and Bassarov orders some nachos and a diet coke. He doesn't really pay much attention to the game.
"Well Selja and I would have more in common if she was political. Sometimes I just don't know what to talk about. It isn't a healthy friendship sometimes."
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Post by Tom McLeod on May 11, 2005 20:33:24 GMT -5
"Well that's too bad. I'm sure you have to have something in common or you wouldn't get along at all." I look at the game, but like Bassarov I don't pay that much attention.
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on May 11, 2005 20:35:22 GMT -5
Bassarov thinks for a moment. "Well we both come from the same general part of the world. We are both students. Other than that, we don't have a lot in common."
"But that doesn't matter so much, since people who don't have things in common can still make good friends."
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Post by Tom McLeod on May 11, 2005 20:39:45 GMT -5
"That's true and who knows, maybe as you hang out with her she will start to become more political. Stranger things have happened." I really don't feel like talking about relationships so I try to change the subject. "So just how bad do you think the German situation is? Is this just an extreme right winger getting elected, or is this a shift in the entire nation's politics?"
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on May 11, 2005 20:45:40 GMT -5
"It must be an anomaly. I think because of the poisoning of nearly the entire Bundestag and then the arrests of Nazi leaders who had nothing to do with the poisoning caused an unusual situation there. I don't know. I think society is polarizing to extremes on the right and left, as we can see by the right wing terrorism in the US."
"We'll have to see how the British and French elections turn out. They will be coming up soon."
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Post by Mikhael Nadyezhda Kirsanov on May 11, 2005 20:49:22 GMT -5
4 hours, 5 stitches, 14 reporters, and 2 interviews later, I am finally out of the hospital and free. I feel strange that nobody on base has called me yet, though I use it to my advantage and decide to call Aisha.
I pull out my military issue cell phone and dial Aisha's number.
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Post by Tom McLeod on May 11, 2005 20:50:21 GMT -5
"Yeah, but I'm not going to worry about it. Germany was a fluke. They've always been that way." I say, and somewhat regret it. "What do we know about this Rommell?"
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on May 11, 2005 20:52:45 GMT -5
"Hmm, I honestly have never heard of him. Just some wacko nazi I guess." Bassarov says simply. He doesn't know the leader of every party in every country, and never paid any attention to the leader of the German national socialist party. It never caught his interest before.
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Post by Shurochka Kropotkin on May 11, 2005 20:53:39 GMT -5
"Ah, Heikki's gonna stay in Helsinki." I say to Salome, then flip my phone shut.
"That's too bad. When should we go? I want to check online to see if anyone's hiring in France for something." I say, pulling out my laptop on the bed and booting it up.
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Post by Tom McLeod on May 11, 2005 20:54:01 GMT -5
I nod. "I guess I just thought you knew all this stuff, sorry. Well I'll find out what I can when I go into work tommorow and let you know."
(work time, cya tommorow)
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Post by Victoria Thistle on May 11, 2005 20:55:12 GMT -5
"Do you want government laws and regulations getting in the way of how you run your business?"
"Do you support a government which gives handouts to lazy and untalented people?"
"I would hope not. So why support party's that do?"
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on May 11, 2005 20:57:14 GMT -5
"Sure, that sounds like a great idea. Find out what you can about Rommel and the other nazis there. I should get to work on this workers defense thing." Bassarov says. They sit and watch the rest of the game then go their seperate ways.
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Post by Salome Weil on May 11, 2005 20:58:25 GMT -5
"We could go in a few days. That would give me time to pack."
Rodney is gone now. I assume he went back to our apartment. He must have gotten bored.
"And it's too bad Heikki won't be joining us."
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Post by dead character on May 11, 2005 21:11:10 GMT -5
(This actually happened and is a real news story, but I thought it was interesting)
Athens anarchists release hostages
Wednesday, May 11, xxxx Posted: 0233 GMT (1033 HKT)
ATHENS, Greece (CNN) -- A group of anarchists took 150 hostages in a six-hour standoff with police after they were angered by the sight of private security guards' cars illegally parked at a university in central Athens, a government official said Wednesday.
The hooded anarchists left the campus, followed by the hostages, after negotiations with law enforcement and school officials.
A 28-year-old anarchist was injured by a warning shot fired by a security guard when the group became violent, authorities said.
Security vehicles were banned from university grounds in 1975. Hundreds of students died when the military junta that ruled Greece at the time rolled tanks onto campus during a bloody student uprising, police said.
The security guards were accompanying two Socialist politicians to a book review discussion in the auditorium of the National Technical University of Athens, said Lefceris Ikonomou, spokesman for the Public Order Ministry.
He said the unarmed anarchists were returning home from a protest march when they spotted the cars and went on a rampage, torching cars and commiting other acts of vandalism.
The guard fired warning shots, injuring one anarchist, and the guard was being treated at a hospital for shock early Wednesday.
Initially, about 30 anarchists stormed the campus, but that number grew to about 300.
They agreed to release the hostages about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday (0130 GMT)after being assured they would not be arrested.
Journalist Anthee Carassava contributed to this report
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Michal Rimone
Provisional Member
Israeli Kibbutznik
"If you will it, it is no dream." -Theodor Herzl
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Post by Michal Rimone on May 11, 2005 21:35:58 GMT -5
"Well, we shall start with a tour, and then we will check the list of open jobs..."
Michal pauses as someone gives her a newspaper. There is a grim look on her face as she reads the headline, which is obviously in Hebrew.
"Oh," Michal says softly.
"I.... I... oh God..."
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